February 28 , 2017
Bob Ford's "Beagle Tales 6" continues the humorous series
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Sunbury Press has released Beagle Tales 6, Bob Ford's sixth installment of his humorous home-spun series.
About the Book:
In Ford's sixth collection of outdoor humor he continues to strike a chord with hunters and dog lovers as he makes observations about contemporary life, often through nostalgic narratives of the simpler days of his youth (way back in the 1900's). Ford is an award winning freelance writer, and his work has appeared in The American Beagler, Better Beagling, Hounds & Hunting, Sporting Classics Daily, and Fur-Fish-Game. He lives in the hills of Pennsylvania with his wife, Renee, and a pack of hunting house beagles.
Excerpt:
When I was a kid, there were a few January rituals that characterized most of my time. One of them was Christmas trees. Our beagle club had a running pen, and the road into the enclosure's parking lot was plowed. People would dump Christmas trees there. I now hear all sorts of debate about the value of used Christmas trees in an overall effort to maintain a quality running grounds, as the trees are dead and will shed their needles in time, yielding Christmas tree skeletons, which are not ideal cover. Our club liked them in the winter, and the task at hand became distributing the trees over the running grounds into clumps of decent cover capable of allowing a bunny to hide from air predators.
"How old are you?" the club president asked me.
"I will be 14 soon," I answered.
"How would you like to disperse Christmas trees around the club?" He scratched his chin.
"Where are they?" I asked.